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Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (14 April 1699 – 10 March 1772), was a duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Biography. He was born in Gotha, the eldest son of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Magdalene Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst . After the death of his father, in 1732, Frederick III assumed the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (29 April 1763 in Hildburghausen – 29 September 1834 in Altenburg ), was duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) and duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834). Biography.
The sitter is probably Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha, the eldest son of Frederick II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Magdalena Augusta, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst. His youngest sister, Augusta, became Princess of Wales on her marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1736.
Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (28 July 1676 – 23 March 1732), was a duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. He was born in Gotha , the fifth child and first son of Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels .
This portrait is traditionally identified as Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha, the eldest son of Frederick II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Magdalena Augusta, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst. In 1729 he married Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen.
As the daughter of Frederick IV, the wife of Duke Ernest III of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld is heiress to Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. When her father dies, his titles and territories fall to Ernest who combines his expanded - but non-contiguous - dominions as Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Friedrich Friedrich III Herzog von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg aka Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (14 Apr 1699 - 10 Mar 1772)
